"Troll Factory" moved to "Lakhta-2"

 

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  The so-called troll factory decided to occupy more status-oriented offices and move to an office in the Lakhta-2 business center in St. Petersburg, on Optikov Street. In the old office, at 55 Savushkina Street, the employees of the "factory" have already vacated two floors, writes "Delovoy Peterburg".

"Troll Factory" is an organization from St. Petersburg, whose employees are supposedly supposed to write comments in blogs in defense of the current government, criticize the opposition, and promote patriotic values. The American authorities accuse her of trying to influence the US presidential election.

Most of the divisions left the building on Savushkina in October, a source close to the management of the "factory" told RBC. Only the administrative part and the editorial staff of the Nevskie Novosti portal remained there, the rest were “absorbed” throughout the city, he added. In particular, part of the information resources included in the so-called media factory operates in the Lakhta business center on Optikov Street.

Also, some media of the "media factories" are moving to a new location, which, as follows from the investigation of the RBC magazine , are connected with the "troll factory". Among them are the "Federal News Agency", "Economics Today" and "Free Time". The first offices of these editions were located at 55 Savushkina Street, RBC magazine wrote. Later, an office was rented for a part of the media factory publications in the Ilyich business center on ul. Beloostrovskaya, 8. There, in particular, the publications FAN, Politics Today, Economics Today and Narodnye Novosti worked.

Now on the sites of some resources, for example "Inf oreaktora " , " Polyexpert ", " Newinform ", a new editorial address is indicated: street Optikov, 4, bldg. 3. The Lakhta-2 business center, completed in the summer of 2016, is located at this address .

The business center at 55 Savushkina Street has not yet been completely empty, Delovoy Petersburg points out. “The top two floors of the four are still occupied by correspondents,” the newspaper writes. In particular, "Nevskie Novosti" is working there. The security guard of the business center on Savushkina Street also told the newspaper that the first two floors of the building "have already been vacated" and are being leased. On the facade of the building, there is an ad “Building for Rent”. According to the phone number indicated on it, the publication was told that the tenants would vacate the business center by February 1.

The new office of the "factory" will be "more status" and "larger in area", notes "Delovoy Peterburg". The office area on Savushkina Street was 4 thousand square meters. m. The area of ​​the new business center is 12 thousand square meters. m., the publication specifies, but does not indicate the area that will be occupied by the "troll factory" and "media factory".

According to the newspaper's correspondent, who came to the new office of the "troll factory", the holding still remains "rather closed," publications of the "media factory". According to the administrator, most of the business center is leased by Novinfo LLC. The same legal entity is indicated as the founder of "Infooreactor" and "Polyexpert". The sole owner of the company, according to SPARK, is Yuri Krasnov. According to SPARK, the businessman only manages this asset. The address of the website inforeactor.ru is indicated as the address of the company on the Internet in SPARK .

Delovoy Peterburg, citing data from Rosreestr, indicates that the Lakhta business center belongs to Dorstroytrest-M. According to Whois data, the business center site is registered with LLC DORSTROYTREST-M. According to the SPARK database, Dorstroytrest-M is registered in Moscow, on Burdenko Street. In the description of the company card, there is a link to the website of the Lakhta business center. The parent company of Dorstroytrest-M is the Cypriot offshore company Glarenville Enterprises Limited. This is also confirmed by (*. Pdf ) data from the extract of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities.

The contact phone number of Dorstroystrest-M, which is listed in ERYUGL, belongs to the Rus-Import-Komplekt company, which is also registered for this Cypriot offshore company. By this number, the newspaper was informed that both companies are a single structure.

The work of the "troll factory" and "media factory" was associated with the businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. In 2016, he filed 15 lawsuits in connection with the refusal of Yandex and other search engines to remove search results from search results. Later it became known that this was due to the mention of his name in connection with the "troll factory". In August 2016, he withdrew claims against Yandex. In November 2017, he stated that neither the Concorde company nor other structures of the businessman are associated with activities "aimed at interfering in the American elections." The statement follows speeches by representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Google in the US Senate as part of an investigation into "Russian interference" in the 2016 presidential election. Prigogine did not evaluate the work of the "troll factory", saying that "he has nothing to do with this structure."

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